US Patent Issued to Tencent America on May 13 for "Methods, devices, and storage medium for multi-symbol arithmetic coding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,832, issued on May 13, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods, devices, and storage medium for multi-symbol arithmetic coding" was invented by Madhu Peringassery Krishnan (Mountain View, Calif.), Xin Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Shan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for multi-symbol arithmetic coding in video decoding. The method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; obtaining an array of cumulative distribution functions and corresponding M symbols, wherein M is an integer larger than 1; and performing, based on the array of ...